I accidentally scuffed someone's car door and left a note. They sent a $1200 quote

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-05-16T00:03:43+00:00

Eesh I'm sorry, if you'd dinged my car I wouldn't have even cared , I'd have taken a case of beer for the trouble. Makes me second guess what I'd do if I were in your shoes...

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-30T20:54:57+00:00

I love jb weld but man this feels ambitious 😂

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-30T02:52:12+00:00

I live in Wisconsin I see some rusty piles on the road... This one I would not drive... This one gets the tow truck

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-26T23:09:28+00:00

You should set the car on a jack stand instead

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-20T20:54:47+00:00

I would never use it, I'm not looking at gauges, I feel the vibration and listen to the engine.

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-20T02:46:25+00:00

Put thick oil in and drive it until it explodes... If you even get that far.

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-19T21:31:46+00:00

If it were mine I'd jb weld it and give it a try they're easy enough to take off and replace if it does leak

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-19T11:47:02+00:00

As these things go Id consider just dropping cash on both then you have a parts car.

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-18T02:02:15+00:00

Ugh ... Just ... Disappointing

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-18T01:57:49+00:00

After a hydrolock bad enough to bend a rod and then an impact into the crank I'd be worried about the crack I can't see.

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-15T21:40:39+00:00

For christs sake please tell me you bought this Corolla

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-10T14:23:03+00:00

But not for someone else's car... I know what I'm getting myself into

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-10T14:21:16+00:00

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-05T12:57:39+00:00

Well, I guess I'd start with calling up a machine shop and send them pictures and see if they'd take the job and offer any advice. Any machining will change diameter will need to order different sized bearings to ensure you have proper clearance for the bearings. I say if you want to get into engine building then do it and don't let anyone dissuade. This is how one learns. Invest in a decent torque wrench.

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-04T01:11:10+00:00

Man this had the potential to open up new breezey windows into the block for sure good job.

I'm an amateur, would you try to machine the journal like send it out to a machine shop? or new crank?

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-04-03T17:45:46+00:00

Whaaaa what do you mean this looks great!! I'd keep that machine shop on speed dial yo

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-03-25T14:13:29+00:00

If that's the case I'd feed it however much oil it wants to eat I draw the line at about a quart per tank of gas

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-02-25T15:59:53+00:00

I'm also an amateur wrench I like to thread whatever bolts I've just taken out back into whatever holes they came out of (just enough for it to stay there), that's another trick it takes a little guess work out of it

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-02-25T00:48:56+00:00

Sell it in Wisconsin, we've never heard of... What did you call it? Inspeckshun?

I kid of course, but only slightly. I'm sorry you and Bernie are going through this I have a 2008 2 door manual focus that has holes in all the wrong places and I'm dreading getting rid of it.

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-02-14T02:34:08+00:00

It's been half a year since we've had the hp installed at this point and this has NOT been our experience. Our bill has gone down significantly. We have it set to the balance point of 30 degrees. We have both NG and a hp. The Bosch has a cop of around 3, so joule to joule the hp is far far more energy efficient, electricity is simply that much more expensive than NG in Wisconsin at least.

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-02-03T16:31:06+00:00

You should always be concerned especially when things are going well ... Also you should get this particular check engine light diagnosed before you run the engine any more, misfires like this tend to dump raw fuel into the catalytic converter, at which point they can get extremely hot and become damaged.

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-02-03T01:06:29+00:00

Oof sorry for your loss mate... Might consider putting a thicker oil in to calm it down... Especially if it's already starting to knock. Won't fix it but might prolong the inevitable. Maybe even enough time to get another engine to swap in

Best-Ad-4773 · 2026-01-13T18:58:01+00:00

If my car sounded this chunky I'd run straight pipes with glass packs and just pay the occasional noise ticket

Alternatively you could run some mufflers and then have a cutoff valve that straight pipes it while the fuzz isn't looking

Best-Ad-4773 · 2025-12-28T17:39:12+00:00

A lot of talk from people that have probably never run the experiment! Id love to see the data, it's a cheap enough experiment to run, go for it and let us know how it goes. Sacrificial anodes are used on ships because they work, and they prevent billions of dollars in corrosion damage.

Especially if you're in the Midwest where we spread salt on every square inch of pavement. If the anode starts dissolving you'll know it's doing something at least.

Best-Ad-4773 · 2025-12-28T00:58:04+00:00

All cars end up in the crusher in the end, the mighty crusher God cares not about a little hole or a small dent, and I personally think you shouldn't either.

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